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Artist: Prince (or whatever he is called now)
Release: Purple Rain
Label: Warner/WEA
Designer: ???
Release Date: July 27, 1984

Couldn’t find much info on this cover. It was based entirely on the namesake film’s promo poster, and we all know film poster designers are even lesser known than album designers. When I was younger (yes, another one of those stories) I always thought the flowers on the sides there to even out the proportions were actually vegetables. Prince eats healthy.